I'll show you mine and you can show me yours.

[crap-king]

Those are some well cared for gardens and looking very healthy & productive.
Will try remember to post a pic or 2 of mine. It is in transition kinda-I timed my planting so that my spring stuff-salad, greens, peas, etc are about done and will become cornfield. Snap peas, lettuce, potatoes, onions producing well right now.
I love to garden so gotta say great post!!:D

What kinda corn do you fellers like?

how long it would take you to get on here shoer

[PawPaw Gene]

I love this thread. I just knew that I wasn't the only one planting a garden. I plant snap beans in the early spring, pick twice (200 pounds), pull the plants and then plant okra. The okra are about a foot tall and growing fast in this heat. I just have to water a lot because we haven't had rain in weeks. When we will have picked enough okra, I will plant some fall snap beans on half of my garden and broccoli, cauliflower, beets, cabbage, and brussels sprouts on the other half. I have a separate row next to the house for the tomatoes, in that place they get a good dose of dew dripping off of the house every morning. That saves on the watering and being on the south side of the house I can plant them early and not worry about frost. And what would be tomatoes without some cukes to complete the salad. We can the beans for long term storage and freeze some for use over the summer. The okra, we smoother down with onions and tomatoes and freeze them in ziplock bags. Just heat and eat or add water and shrimp and make gumbo. The strawberries are for desert. As you can see in some of the pictures there are lots of bags of grass clippings and leaves.
All of that end up in the garden. Enjoy the pictures.

"gene"

snap beans growing good




snap beans ready to pick



plenty beans



my lazy way of picking, sure saves a tired old back.



okra coming up



green table grapes, thompson seedless



LSU Gold figs should be ready in a couple of weeks.



sweet charlies for desert



tomatoes



cukes

[horseshoer]

Paw Paw that is one nice garden. I envy you those grapes & figs. Like yur bean-picker.:D
Heres a few random pics from our gardening thread on the VA forum.
http://www.crappie.com/crappie/531375-post263.html
http://www.crappie.com/crappie/535267-post264.html

I got into growing garlic these past cpl yrs and a client of mine gave me a few bulbs of pink Italian garlic to plant cloves from. I ran into some rather interesting (and important) facts about garlic that I didn't previously know such as ALL garlic tastes the same when it is harvested. They attain their individual flavor & qualities as they cure. All garlic are size-dependent on the size clove you plant. Small clove produces small bulb, large clove=large bulb.

Do you know anything about "leather britches"- the drying of string beans? I can & freeze em and was just curious if anyone out there has ever had em from a dried state and what they reconstitute & cook up like.

I planted enuf regular onions, bunching onions, cayenne, & parsley/chives to make a big batch of boudin in a month or so with those ingredients of my own.

That Crap-King really been sniping at me on this thread. There musta been a price hike in NC donuts or something to make him so irritable. I'll say one thing for him though, he put out a 1-liner last year that just tickled me pink and one of them things I will always remember: "There is nothing better in this world than the love of a beautiful woman and a fresh home grown tomato."
Ya cant argue much with that.
Good pics Paw Paw!!

[crappiecatcher06]

My son had to plant a garden for school so we made a little patch and it produced pretty good for it's size. We harvested 4 batches of mustard greens, green onion tops, parsely, carrots, turnips and beets. We ended up planting a summer garden also but I had problems the other day when I went to post them. I had lost all our pictures. I recovered the winter garden pics. I will post the summer garden pics tomorrow.

[GRIZZ]

Wow!! We have some talented green thumbs here. I'm impressed. I'm sorry to say I have no love for gardening. My father loved gardening, but he forced me to do it with him and acted like General Patton while we did it. I still remember him saying "when I say jump, you ask how high on the way up." Its hard to get over things like that, but he did manage to instill his great love for all things outdoors to me somehow, and for that I am eternally grateful. I still appreciate a good garden and labor of love it took to till, plant, tend and reap what grew, so in a strange way, even though I have bad memories about it, I still love seeing your gardens.

I hope that someday I will toss the junk in my head out and try a nice big garden on my own. I would also like to get more into flowers and trees as well. My problem is I like to fish so much that all the time it would take to garden I'll be thrashing the water. Oh well, could be worse. Thanks for the excellent pictures. :D

[crappiecatcher06]

Grizz get yourself a patio tomato there easy to take care of and I bet you will get back into it. Keep it simple my little garden has brought back some great memories I had as a kid helping my uncle and father in the truck patch. Believe me they were both 4 star generals in the garden they half killed us toating sacks of corn and okra. That which does not kill us makes us stronger, this always comes to mind when I ask my kids do help me. LOL!!!

[PawPaw Gene]

Shoer I like the looks of the cauliflower. We plant those at the end of August as a fall crop along with the likes of brussel spouts, broccoli, beet, carrots, turnip, cabbage and another round of beans and tomatoes. Sure is nice to have a long growing season except for grass. We can sometimes pick fresh tomatoes until Christmas.
"gene"

[horseshoer]

Crappiecatcher thats some good-lookin stuff there!!!
PawPaw, I picked some of my garlic today. The ones in the flat are elephant
garlic, the loose ones Italian Red.



Pulled up my pea vines, they are done producing. I always keep the local cattle in mind when I have a sizeable mess of eats for em and feel sure they love me for it.







While I was out I picked up a pie.

:D

[crappiecatcher06]

Here are a couple of pics of my sons summer garden. It's small but it's coming along.

[PawPaw Gene]

CCO6, small is the best way to start that way it doesn't overwhelm you. You can just add a little each year. I notice a potted fig tree with figs on it. What kind is it? Mines is an LSU Gold and boy is it good. It produces large figs of great quality that ripen to a golden color. My tree is dying but I hope I'm able to pick this years crop before it give up the ghost. I have two others planted to replace it but one is one year old and the other is 2, so I wont get many figs off of them for a few years. I also have a young Celeste coming up from a cutting that came from the trees my Dad had and I grew up with. He gave a small started tree to my brother that lives in Tenn. and I got a started tree from him. The originals were damaged by a heavy freeze and then hurricane Rita finished it off. Happy growing.
"gene"